It’s spectacular and there is a cat! I found this beautiful illustration on Pinterest thanks to the “lightness” board of Giuliana  and I wanted to share it with you! It’s by Lee White, a children’s book illustrator. You can have a look at his works here!

Have a nice weekend!

What bright colors, what fantasy, and how much joy in these photos! The impact is very strong and you can’t avoid adoring this photo shoot. When I saw them for the first time I stopped to look at them a bit. They gave me joy and I felt there was something artistic in the air. She is Alia Penner, Californian artist; she doesn’t just love color: she lives it, plays with it, she can bring her imagination to reality and sweeps her audience with her works. Illustrations, photographs, paintings, murals, all with a graphic style and strong, almost psychedelic, color accents. Her look is neo-hippie, but with a strong personal style; for her to work as a designer is to create wearable art, she collaborated with Colette and was a set designer for Lula magazine. “A wreath of flowers is not hippie, a wreath of flowers is joyful!” AP A unique personality, charming … discover her work here.

photo: Alia [...]]]>

What bright colors, what fantasy, and how much joy in these photos!
The impact is very strong and you can’t avoid adoring this photo shoot.
When I saw them for the first time I stopped to look at them a bit. They gave me joy and I felt there was something artistic in the air.
She is Alia Penner, Californian artist; she doesn’t just love color: she lives it, plays with it, she can bring her imagination to reality and sweeps her audience with her works. Illustrations, photographs, paintings, murals, all with a graphic style and strong, almost psychedelic, color accents.
Her look is neo-hippie, but with a strong personal style; for her to work as a designer is to create wearable art, she collaborated with Colette and was a set designer for Lula magazine.
“A wreath of flowers is not hippie, a wreath of flowers is joyful!” AP
A unique personality, charming … discover her work here.

photo: Alia Penner

What is summer for you? More like a complete relax vacation, or rather an all fun holiday? And can you find time for a good book?? I hope so, and I hope they are quality readings, whatever your favorite genre.

In this period of time more than other times of the year I, for example, like reading books about art. It feels like the summer heat and the shutters closed for the sun help me to focus (well sometimes the heat actually brings me to fall asleep…)

While I’m in town I like to hole up in galleries and museums to see some exhibitions (ok, I admit that I also benefit from the air conditioning!)

I have different books at hand right now.

I’m reading Si fa con tutto, Vettese, a book that I would recommend because it manages to take stock of the situation on art of the twentieth century, expanding the horizons of all those skeptics [...]]]>

What is summer for you? More like a complete relax vacation, or rather an all fun holiday? And can you find time for a good book?? I hope so, and I hope they are quality readings, whatever your favorite genre.

In this period of time more than other times of the year I, for example, like reading books about art. It feels like the summer heat and the shutters closed for the sun help me to focus (well sometimes the heat actually brings me to fall asleep…)

While I’m in town I like to hole up in galleries and museums to see some exhibitions (ok, I admit that I also benefit from the air conditioning!)

I have different books at hand right now.

I’m reading Si fa con tutto, Vettese, a book that I would recommend because it manages to take stock of the situation on art of the twentieth century, expanding the horizons of all those skeptics still thinking that certain works of art would’ve been easily done by anyone. But it is not a book about “I’ll explain why that weird stuff is art”, it’s rather an helping hand in understanding how art reflects our era. I’m halfway through it and I would say that it is to keep in mind!

Next in line (or perhaps postponed until further) is Mixed Media by Marina Pugliese. I think that this book insists on how the art of the twentieth century “is made”, exploring the materials, techniques and new forms of art. We’ll see…

For a couple of months I’ve dedicated my efforts to origami (stay tuned for nice surprises!) Therfore this L’Atelier de Origami by Adeline Klam, directly from Paris and ordered through the charming e-shop (….) is making me company together with the origami paper…

A little booklet, Through the tree by Tullio Pericoli, collects illustrations of great artists from Giotto to Saul Steinberg: how they imagined, drawn and painted the trees? Really cute to enjoy with your children.

Well I left for the end the book 400 Travel Dream, full of wonderful photographs from around the world. It ‘a great gift because everyone can find interesting ideas. You’ll just be fascinated while choosing between trips on the water, on the road, by train or on foot, or travel in search of culture, adventure or in a paradise of taste.

I’d like to go on the Orient Express and do Venice-Simplon, see the France of the impressionists (Le Havre, Deauville, Trouville, Giverny), the gardens of England, go to the ancient Kyoto in April when the cherry trees are in bloom.

And you? Where would you like to go? What journey are you planning, or what travel is floating in your mind?

Go, explore, see the world …

Il bagno turco (1971)

Five reasons to see Michelangelo Pistoletto in Milan at the Studio Guastalla.

My desire is to capture that part of the audience who doesn’t know well and do not always understand contemporary art but, I add, would like to. I say “would like to” meaning that they are prepared to handle listening, reading and research, driven by curiosity and enthusiasm.

Michelangelo Pistoletto, a retrospective in Milan titled Riflettiamoci

Why?

1. You’ll see 25 works, a number more than enough to understand the project of the artist, to understand his evolution over the years (starting from the ’60s up to the ’90s), to understand that it’s the constant study and observation that builds the personal style of an artist and his research. And when you discover that it all started with a picture you’ll get involved in this research. Remember that in order to understand a work it’s important to know from where [...]]]>

Il bagno turco (1971)

Five reasons to see Michelangelo Pistoletto in Milan at the Studio Guastalla.

My desire is to capture that part of the audience who doesn’t know well and do not always understand contemporary art but, I add, would like to. I say “would like to” meaning that they are prepared to handle listening, reading and research, driven by curiosity and enthusiasm.

Michelangelo Pistoletto, a retrospective in Milan titled Riflettiamoci

Why?

1. You’ll see 25 works, a number more than enough to understand the project of the artist, to understand his evolution over the years (starting from the ’60s up to the ’90s), to understand that it’s the constant study and observation that builds the personal style of an artist and his research. And when you discover that it all started with a picture you’ll get involved in this research. Remember that in order to understand a work it’s important to know from where the artist started!

2. You will discover with surprise that the works are sheets of stainless steel, mirror polished, on which is applied an image obtained by a technique of photographic transfer, that is to trace a photograph enlarged to actual size, brush tip, on paper tissue (from 1971, the painted tissue will be replaced by a screen printing process for the reproduction of the photographic image). Yes, in the twentieth century art “is done with everything” (Angela Vettese).

3. You are in front of a work, a mirror painting, what do you see? A person, living, moving, breathing and his eyes continuing to observe: it’s you, your reflected self, you and your real world, your clothes, your hair, your serious and a bit puzzled expression, you are actually (and at the same time virtually) moving in the work of art, you’re part of the work of art, as were the people before you, as well as people who’ll face this same work in the future. Just as the artist was.

4. You are part of the work now, a work that lives in time, the time of creation, past time, present and future. The work itself has potentially a fourth dimension, that of time. An issue dear to the Italian artists of the seventies, that will be investigated and dealt with in different ways, leading the viewer to experience in first person performances and installations.

5. I would add that enriching a stroll along Corso di Porta Venezia, between Montanelli Gardens and Piazza San Babila, with a detour in Via Senato, sneaking into the courtyard of the number 24, you’ll discover not only a small, well curated art gallery but also views of Milan that are as important as often overlooked, such as the Senate Building.

Are you curious? Don’t be shy, knock on that door and a world will open in front of you.

 Up to 26 July!

Studio Guastalla, via Senato 24, Milano